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why are they so terrible?
why do they persist with them?
they're the advertising equivalent of watching your dad dance on a table at a school disco.
i'm not sure an ad campaign has ever made me want to punch its creator before.

today i've seen painfully awful low budget ads for uniformdating,com and some male online clothing store that had a fake Johnny Vegas in the ad - like, a fat REALLY NORTHERN guy rambling away. imagine making an ad and not having the cash to hire Johnny Vegas. IMAGINE THAT.

The stuff that's on during the day is called direct response (a nightmare I managed to remove myself from) and the only objective is to get people to buy stuff to make a return on investment. So they make it as cost effective as possible by making cheap shit ads, and spamming them in the cheapest airtime (during the day cos only losers like you are watching).

It's seriously so depressing, there's basically rules you have to follow to make a successful ad. Say the phone number/URL three times, showing on screen all the time. The ads are basically created by a vlookup